This week, dozens of U.S. troops from the Baystate came home to a warm welcome, after awaiting nearly a year to return from overseas.

Surrounded by family members, specialist Jared Dwyer of the National Guard’s 379th engineer company embraced his mother after serving a 10-month deployment in Afghanistan. The 22-year-old of Beckett said he had no words to describe the experience of returning.

For Richard Haskins of Greenfield, returning from his overseas duties meant coming home to see his first child, a girl.

“We’re going to be a family now. We’re going to get to know daddy,” said Haskins’ wife, Kimberly Haskins, talking to her daughter during their reunion.

To watch the interviews with the soldiers and their families see ABC 40’s video above.